Neal: Asheville's bid to replicate Austin's success?

6:36 PM,
Nov. 29, 2013

Back in 2012, Artist Dustin Spagnola works on the portrait of Bob Moog that adorns the Moog Music Inc. factory building on Broadway in downtown Asheville. Moog Music will host Moogfest 2014 in April, which has the potential to put Asheville on par with Austin, Texas, and its South-by-Southwest festival.

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Bob Moog's white-haired likeness looks down from a two-story-tall mural along Broadway Street. The celebrated inventor stares past the new headquarters of his company, into the heart of downtown Asheville, and perhaps into the future.

Moog's name is forever linked with the electronic synthesizer that he invented in the 1960s.

Now Asheville's reinventing the music festival that bears his name and honors his legacy. The revamped Moogfest returns April 23-27. ...